Un-hemmed Pants Inventory

Trying to figure out the best way to process SO lines with uniform pants on them that we stock.  The issue is we inventory pants unhemmed, that way when a customer orders a 32x32 we hem the pant to the 32 inseam.  So technically we take out of the unhemmed inventory and create a new item code with the 32x32.   We also might have some 32x32 in inventory (from canceled orders) and we get an order for a 32x30, ideally we would want to pull a 32x30 but if there's no inventory I would want to pull the 32x32 and hem it 2" to make a 32x30.

Would this be a situation for a lookup table? Or alias item codes, I knew we would have an issue with this situation when we try to get everything on inventory correctly.  Right now it is a manual process, the order is entered as a 32x32 and when the picker goes to pick the pant, they look on the shelf and pick either the exact size or one with a longer inseam to hem.  Nothing in Sage is accurate on inventory levels right now.

  • 0 in reply to jepritch

    When setting up the components of the kit can you set priority of the components?  I tested the alternate item method and I don't think it will work for us because when you select the alt item you lose the item data of what was originally ordered.  If I just have the unhemmed item as the kit component I think it will work but I'm worried about added the longer lengths as components too, will this take to much manual intervention to select the right size.  Trying to keep into mind that most of our orders are imported into Sage so this would need some automation in the selection.